Sooner I Time Home Suːn Sold House Short

• we’ll be home soon./we’ll soon be home.
• she sold the house soon after her husband died.
• i soon realized the mistake.
• it soon became clear that the programme was a failure.

soon

1. in a short time from now; a short time after something else has happened
• We’ll be home soon./We’ll soon be home.
• She sold the house soon after her husband died.
• I soon realized the mistake.
• It soon became clear that the programme was a failure.
• See you soon!
2. early; quickly
• see also asap
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/asap
• How soon can you get here?
• We'll deliver the goods as soon as we can.
• Please send it as soon as possible.
• Next Monday is the soonest we can deliver.
• They arrived home sooner than expected.
• The sooner we set off, the sooner we will arrive.
• The note said, ‘Call Bill soonest’ (= as soon as possible).
• All too soon the party was over.
3. used in negative sentences and questions to refer to the near future
• Will she be back anytime soon?
4. used to say that you would equally well like to do something as do something else that has been suggested
• I'd just as soon stay at home as go out tonight.
5. to prefer to do something (than do something else)
• She'd sooner share a house with other students than live at home with her parents.
6. a bad situation will pass or be forgotten most quickly if nothing more is said about it
7. used to say that something was, or will be, done immediately
8. used to say that something happens immediately after something else
• No sooner had she said it than she burst into tears.
• They have sold scarcely any copies of the book.
• I barely recognized her.
• His words were barely audible.
• I can hardly believe it.
• We had hardly/scarcely/barely sat down at the table, when the phone rang.
• Hardly/Scarcely had we sat down at the table, when the phone rang.
• I scarcely had time to ring the bell before the door opened.
• No sooner had we sat down at the table than the phone rang.
• She hardly (ever) sees her parents these days.
9. very soon; as soon as possible
• ‘When shall I tell him?’ ‘The sooner the better.’
10. at some time in the future, even if you are not sure exactly when
• Sooner or later you will have to make a decision.
11. after a short time rather than after a long time
• We urged them to sort out the problem sooner rather than later.

Word Origin

• Old English sōna ‘immediately’, of West Germanic origin.